Personal

Yikes…the sacrifices we make in order to do something that’s important to us. For years I’ve had three ‘boy toy’ areas that were important to me — my music and DJ’ing equipment, my computers, and my home theater. It may not have been much of a home theater, but I was pretty proud of it, and considering the budget I’d put it together on, it was pretty decent.

Well, to further my goal of getting down to Seattle next month, I put pieces of the theater up for sale — and one of my two receivers, the DVD player, and the 46″ rear-projection TV just drove away from me. (sigh) Very wierd feeling, in a way, but at the same time, it’s getting me out of here, and I’ve got the DVD player in my computer, so I’m at least not cutting myself off from my movies. Sure, a 17″ monitor isn’t a 46″ TV…but it works for now.

Dammit — no matter how well things are going, something always seems to come along to trip things up.

Got word from my boss at GCI today that the temporary position I’m in is ending as of early June. I can either apply for the permanent spot, or let CNTS (the temp agency I’m with) know and hope that they can find something for me.

It’s tempting to try and stay with GCI — I’m enjoying it, and the fact that I’m getting props on how I’m doing there makes me think I’ve got a fair chance of landing the permanent spot. On the other hand, I’m certainly not gauranteed the spot — there’s always a chance that someone from one of the other call centers with a few years experience will want to take it. The pay would be slightly less, but that’s because I’d actually be getting benefits, so that’s not too big of a hassle.

The one that’s actually getting to me, though, is that if I do go for the permanent spot — and get it — I’d just be turning in my two week notice a month and a half later for the move down to Seattle. This really bugs me — I’ve inherited something of an overdeveloped sense of responsibility to my job from my mother, and doing something like that just seems kind of underhanded, even if it’s in my own best interests. Yuck…I hate situations like this.

Besides, if I let CNTS know that I need a new position, who knows how soon they’ll find one, what they’ll find, or how much it will pay? Makes me very nervous…admittedly, this is the kind of situation that can crop up when you’re doing temp work, and I knew that when I signed up — this is just the first time I’ve had to face it, and I can’t honestly say it makes me too comfortable. I’m so determined to get myself out of state at the end of the summer, that I hate seeing anything pop up that might jeopardize that — and losing this paycheck is really high on the list of things that can jeapordize the move.

So…I’ve got some pondering to do, along with a lot of finger crossing. Should be interesting.

Can’t believe I almost forgot to say anything about this — my little brother turns 25 today! Wow…that’s kind of frightening. But cool, too.

Happy b-day, bro.

Well…as far as birthdays go, yesterday wasn’t the worst — but I can’t honestly say it was the best, either. Outside of my parents, all of three people have remembered it without obvious prompting on my part, and only two of those were actually on the day. Ah, well, more reasons for me not to worry about missing living up here too much when I bail.

Not that I’m cynical or anything like that.

So, that was about it for yesterday. I’m off to DJ a dance for UAA tonight, then will be working at Suncoast tomorrow during the day and Studio 99 in the evening, so am looking pretty busy. Will babble more when I get the chance…and I’m sure you’re all anxiously awaiting that, too — right?

This just rocks — my parents van, which was stolen about two weeks ago, will be back in their hands sometime today! Here’s what dad just e-mailed me about it:

I was driving down Muldoon Road yesterday at 4:30 PM and I saw Berta’s car right in front of me. I had my cell phone, so I called the police. They had me follow the car at a distance. When it got “lost” in a housing development, they sent out several cars to search, and the car was recovered about 6 PM. They took it to the station to do forensics (fingerprints, etc.) and we get it back today. It looks perfect on the outside; they did not want me to disturb the inside until the forensics were done.

Very, very cool…most of the time, if you don’t recover a stolen car within 24 hours, you’re not going to recover it. This is a great little turn of events.

So far the day hasn’t been going too badly…on a nice sugar high at the moment from the cake that was brought into the office by my co-workers. Woohoo!

Well, I’m 28. We’ll see how the day goes.

Other notable May 3rd birthdays: Steve Jones (1955) (guitarist for the Sex Pistols), Frankie Valli (1937), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), James Brown (1933), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Pete Seeger (1919), Mary Astor (1906) (actress, female lead in The Maltese Falcon), Bing Crosby (1903), Niccolo Machiavelli (1469), Constantine III (612).

Got a call from the owner of the club I’m working at right now, Studio 99, that told me that as there was a rave tonight, they weren’t going to open and try to compete. Understandable, as the raves have a tendency to steal all of our crowd from us…but something of a bummer. However, it did give me a chance to go out with some of the Yahoo! Chat friends I’ve made. We started with a BBQ, then went out to the Last Frontier. Was a good night, overall.